Unyield
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Summary: "THE BOLDEST MOVE..." Young Emlyn strolls through Evergine Woods nearly everyday with her father and sometimes her mother to pick wild fruits and to play with her friends. Everyday, she goes to school, and everyday she plays with her friends. Emlyn lives in the province of Falkan where its distinct regions have marked it as a wonderful nature attraction, yet its people lived simple and independent. The towns people have lived in these distinct regions peacefully for decades. As the regions are half known, there comes a stranger living in the unknown depths with an erratic mind. Coming all the way from the outskirts of the loosely populated Deflon Village up north, the stranger roams southward deep into the vast Evergine Woods. The stranger is soon known to follow fellow townspeople and dispatch them from their ongoing, cherished lives. Being dextrous and vile in some cases, hardly anyone wishes to come near him less be found by him. A treacherous and wrongful creature he may be, but Emlyn has been spotted by the curious, shadowed soul. And now she steps into a risky path as she is new to this unsearchable criminal. Emlyn must take caution and advantage of the consequential situation before the stranger takes it to a level where it's too difficult to escape.
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The kingdom of Verlockend has a secret. Within its emerald green hills and spanning lakes lies a deadly curse. Behind its citizens' extravagant masks exists a condition beyond compare: hideous boils that cover every face. For as long as Fawn has known, this is the way life has been under the rule of King Malin; everyone within its walls is mandated to wear a mask at all times, so as not to reveal the cause of Verlockend's mysterious solitude to its enemies. The curse that covered the miles of fruitful land long ago is not only hard to look at, but deadly as citizens continue to age. The elderly members of the community are starting to disappear more and more often, sent far away from civilization due to the violent characteristics of the curse. Their heartbroken families never see them again. Despite the horrors of this, Fawn lives a comfortable life as a baker's daughter. Having lived this sad tale all her life, she has grown used to spending her days hidden behind cloth. But even within the mundane kitchen life, a secret as big as her kingdom's always looms in the back of her mind: she is not cursed. She was born an anomaly, the one Verlockan citizen without those grotesque features the curse brings; her skin is smooth and white as milk, keeping her immune from the curse's claws. When the home she thought she knew is suddenly turned upside down, Fawn realizes that she cannot live surrounded by secrets any longer. Her chance comes upon meeting a cunning stranger named Jacinth, whose bold spirit leads them both into an unexplored land to discover the truth behind all the lies. Along with wise Kendry, confident Wrendolyn, and some companions along the way, Fawn finds herself as she discovers the story behind her kingdom's fate - and if there is a way to break the curse once and for all.

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